Oeningen (Rheinau Monastery collection) (Miocene of Germany)

Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (47.7° N, 8.9° E: paleocoordinates 47.9° N, 7.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: MN 7 mammal zone, Upper Oehningen beds Member (Upper Freshwater-Molasse Formation), Sarmatian (12.7 - 11.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crater lake; lithified limestone

• "meromictic maar lake of approximately 1000 m in diameter and perhaps up to 100 m in depth" (Lutz, 1997). "Deposited in the Northern Alpine Foreland basin" (Uhl et al., 2006).

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Primary reference: O. Heer. 1849. Die Insektenfauna der Tertiärgebilde von Oeningen und von Radoboj in Croatien. Zweiter Theil: Henschrecken, Florfliegen, Aderflügler, Schmetterlinge und Fliegen 1-264 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117260: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.09.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Hymenoptera - Formicidae
"Formica pinguis" = Oecophylla obesa
"Formica pinguis" = Oecophylla obesa Heer 1849 weaver ant
ssp. oeningensis
 Diptera - Bibionidae
"Bibio oeningensis n. sp." = Dilophus pinguis
"Bibio oeningensis n. sp." = Dilophus pinguis Heer 1849 march fly
Bibio pinguis oeningensis